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Where Was College Camp?

 
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Posted 11/23/2012   9:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add pjsstamps to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have exhausted my DPO lists and I have tried googling this. I have no idea where College Camp was. The return address is the same as the sent to, so it may just have been a convenient envelope and not a Minnesota cancellation at all. The previous owner of the cover was one of my mentors in Minnesota Postal History and even he noted on the cover "Where was College Camp"? Any ideas on this one?

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Posted 11/23/2012   10:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add MikeE to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
According to Jim Forte's post office finder, the only College Camp was in Wisconsin, Walworth County, open from 1915-1955.

An essential link for researching post office names.

http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp

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Posted 11/23/2012   10:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Try "College Camp, Wisconsin". It was a "summer post office" established back in 1915 and closed in 1954. It was a sub-section of Williams Bay, Wisconsin and ultimately all mail was re-directed to that post office during the off-season.

The date of your postmark appears to be 1925, in which case for that year, the "summer post office" use was from June 8 to September 8, 1925, which fits the date on your postmark.

A further piece of information connects it as the cover is from the YMCA and according to Wiki:


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George Williams (YMCA), the founder of the YMCA whose officials and students of Chicago-based George Williams College frequently met just west of the town of Williams Bay and later established a camp in the village on the shores of Lake Geneva. George Williams College folded in the 1970s and is today part of Aurora University, which today maintains the campus.
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Posted 11/24/2012   09:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pjsstamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, Thanks Again to you two!
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